Sunday, May 15, 2011
Bank Failures By Year
2000: 002
2001: 004
2002: 011
2003: 003
2004: 004
2007: 003
2008: 025
2009: 140
2010: 157
Year to Date 2011: 40
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Line of the Day from Real Clear Politics
"I heard the line was too long so Osama gave up."
-- kegan05, comment in response to:
George Bush: The Smug Head Speaks
Just recently, here:
Bush said US foreign policy needs to continue to promote the ideas of democracy and freedom as a way to combat global terrorism.
"The long-term solution is to promote a better ideology, which is freedom. Freedom is universal," Bush said.
The problem is that 1.57 billion people around the world, who value submission as a way of life over freedom, would not agree.
Fighting ideology with ideology is not the solution.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Manufacturing Jobs Have Tanked to Levels Last Seen in the 1940s
The declines under W and under Obama have been precipitous, after three decades of relative continuity.
The jobs all went to China. I love my fancy stainless steel All-Clad cookware made there. Unfortunately I can't afford the steak I'd like to cook in it.
"And they shall beat their cookware into swords, and their patio furniture into spears, and nation shall lift up the sword against nation, and they shall learn to make warfare evermore."
Allegations Planned Parenthood Complicit in Covering Up Child Rape in Kansas
As reported here:
During 18 months in 2002 and 2003, Planned Parenthood and Tiller performed 166 abortions on girls aged 14 or younger, yet state agencies had only one report of statutory child rape from each. Why weren't they reporting clear cases of child rape, as required by law?
Pompous Senators Rake in 18.4 Cents For Every Gallon of Gas Sold . . .
. . . while states take in 20.6 cents!
And they begrudge Exxon 7 cents a gallon in profits?
Jerks! Government is the biggest gasoline profiteer!
If Healthcare is a Right, a Doctor Becomes a Slave
A point we have made in the past:
"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery."
-- Senator Rand Paul, quoted here
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Obama Sent Planes to Mexico to Fight Fires, But Wouldn't Help Texas
Military C-130s were sent to stop Mexico's fires in April, as reported here, but Texans didn't get a federal declaration of disaster for their recent fires, as reported here.
Obviously, Mexico provides Obama with more votes than Texas.
Showing no favor to worthy people: one of the marks of a tyranny. And another is like it, from Aristotle: "The guards of a tyrant are foreigners."
Showing no favor to worthy people: one of the marks of a tyranny. And another is like it, from Aristotle: "The guards of a tyrant are foreigners."
Leftist FDL Slams Obama for Kicking Housing Can Down the Road
And rightly so:
The design of HAMP simply kicked the can down the road. It was never designed to be a durable solution for the housing market. And we’re seeing the results: four years after the housing crash, prices keep dropping, distressed properties keep popping up on the market, and people keep losing their homes.
It also shows how the homebuyer’s tax credit was a useless giveaway to people wealthy enough to buy homes, which did nothing to alter the fundamentals of the housing market.
The rest is worth reading, too, here.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Five Radiation Monitoring Posts in Fukushima Prefecture Still Above 10 MicroSv/hr
Post #32: 20.1 microsieverts/hour
Post #33: 15.3
Post #79: 10.2/10.7
Post #81: 18.4
Post #83: 43.8/43.4
(source)
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Radiation Conditions at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Still 154-3700 Times Normal
On May 7th, 2100 hours, Japan time:
408 microSv/h at the south side of the office building;
45 microSv/h at the Main gate;
17 microSv/h at the West gate.
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